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Subject: Re: bios function 0x7f
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Date: 31 Dec 88 16:14:50 GMT
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From: ardvar!krs@stag.UUCP (Kent Schumacher)

[walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker) writes...]



> [... lots o' stuff I agree with deleted ]
>                                     That bozo just created more work for
> you that was not necessary.  Futhermore, your freedom has been restricted so
> now instead of that elegant solution you came up with, you have to gludge
> something together and make it work.  Wouldn't you be a little upset?

Sure would.  Here's my proposal - let Allan write the perfect OS and
release it.  Then let all of us that like to hack on the OS write patches
to put it back into it's original broken state so that we can run the
poorly written software. Everybody will be happy...

I get to write fatslow - who wants to write foldr000 and zerofill? :^)

  - Kent Schumacher                  /* "A member of STdNET-         */
    krs@ardvar.UUCP                  /*  The ST developers network  */